No. We trust the packages we install, including the way they decide to use the metadata. A bad package could delete all our files or cause dependency resolution to fail. Mostly they won't.
Daniel Holth On Nov 20, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> They mean pretty much what the same words mean in RPM and do not need further >> bikeshedding. > > But isn't it the case that the scenarios are different because in the case of > RPMs, we have a presumed authority which can determine e.g. what obsoletes > what, > whereas with Python distributions, there's no central authority that has this > function? > > Regards, > > Vinay Sajip > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/dholth%40gmail.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
